Harry B. Carleton Biography

	This biography appears on page 486-487 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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CARLETON, HARRY B., was born in Marshfield, Vermont, October 10, 1867.  
When eighteen years of age he came to Sioux Falls and entered the law 
office of Boyce & Boyce, where he remained until 1888.  He then spent a 
year with White & Brown, court reporters.  Upon the election of Albion 
Thorne as clerk of the courts, Harry was appointed deputy clerk, and 
held this place during Mr. Thorne's administration of four years.  In 
1894, he received the republican nomination for clerk of the courts, 
and ran about three hundred votes ahead of his ticket.  His conduct of 
the office was so satisfactory that at the republican county convention 
in 1896 he received a renomination by acclamation, but was defeated at 
the election with the rest of his comrades on the ticket.  At the 
expiration of his term of office he entered into a copartnership with 
Judge Parliman for the practice of law, but after a few months 
abandoned the profession, and accepted a good position with a large 
business house in Chicago where he now resides.